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The Plaza at Polo Park—located at the Canad Inns Stadium grounds, adjacent to Scotiabank Theatre—is a mixed-use development that spans over 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m 2). [ 6 ] [ 20 ] It features Winners , HomeSense , Urban Behavior , Winnipeg Metropolitan Region Inc. , and the first P. F. Chang's restaurant in Winnipeg.
James Speers acquired land to build what would become Assiniboia Downs and granted an option on the Polo Park lands to real estate developers who wished to build a shopping centre on the site. Speers died in July 1955 and Polo Park Racetrack closed at the end of the 1956 racing season. The new mall opened in 1959. Winnipeg did not have a racing ...
Winnipeg Arena was an indoor arena located in the Polo Park district of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.. The arena was the city's premier ice hockey venue from 1955 to 2004 and is best remembered as the home of the first Winnipeg Jets franchise, which played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 to 1979 and the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to 1996.
[citation needed] Polo Park, the city's largest mall, is also considered part of the West End. [18] The commercial area in the Polo Park district has expanded rapidly beginning in the 1990s with the building of big-box retail outlets, restaurants, and a major hotel. It has now supplanted downtown Winnipeg as the city's main commercial area.
Kildonan Place – Garden City – Red River College – Polo Park: Route 77 to/from Polo Park/Kildonan Place is the longest running bus route in Winnipeg: 78 Waverley Polo Park – University of Manitoba: 79 Charleswood: Polo Park – Westdale Does not operate during weekday rush hour, when Route 67 is operating. 82 Grace Hospital – Unicity
The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) and over.
The extension of Winnipeg city limits in 1882 made St. James Street the city's new western boundary. [1] [2] Since 1972, St. James Street has served as the boundary between the major districts of St. James-Assiniboia and the West End. The city's former two largest sports venues, Winnipeg Arena and Winnipeg Stadium, were both located on St ...
Portage Avenue is also the first leg of the Yellowhead Highway from Winnipeg to Edmonton, which branches off PTH 1 on to PTH 16 near Portage la Prairie. A six-lane road for its entire length, Route 85 passes by major destinations such as Winnipeg Square, Canada Life Centre, Portage Place, Polo Park Shopping Centre, and the University of Winnipeg.